Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) was a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist.
Editor Donald Tyson is a Canadian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Early in life he was drawn to science by an intense fascination with astronomy. He now devotes his life to the attainment of a complete gnosis of the art of magic in theory and practice. His purpose is to formulate an accessible system of personal training composed of East and West, past and present, that will help the individual discover the reason for one's existence and a way to fulfill it.
The Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Agrippa is the single most
important text in the history of Western occultism. Even today,
occultists use the techniques first described here, although rarely
giving credit to it. Barrett's The Magus is a direct plagiarism of
a part of this book. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's
systems of the Kabbalah, geomancy, elements, and seals and squares
of the planets are all taken, in a large measure, from Agrippa--but
for 500 years, Three Books of Occult Philosophy was almost
impossible to find. Donald Tyson took on the Herculean task of
digging out the original, correcting the errors, and fully
annotating the entire work. As a result, not only is this new
edition easily available to scholars, but it is now fully
understandable by people today. The ancient magics, in their
original form, live again. Besides the annotations, there are also
extensive appendices on such topics as the elements, the magical
squares, the humors, and more. Biographical and geographical
dictionaries and the general index make accessing and understanding
information in this book easier than ever. This is the ultimate
version of the book that is the ultimate book on magic. If you are
interested in any form of magic or occultism, you must get Three
Books of Occult Philosophy.
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